SAINT MARTYRS OF THE DAMNED
Fans of David Lynch and Takashi Miike should appreciate this extremely well-crafted French-Canadian exercise in surreality, though I suspect most everyone else will be annoyed by it
THE KINGDOM
One of the decade’s premier cinematic achievements in the horror genre, a wild, crazy, profound and endlessly thought provoking work
OPERA
Not one of Dario Argento’s best films, but certainly one of his most outrageous. No other Argento movie more enthusiastically pushes his preferences for fluid camerawork, garish colors and extremely graphic violence
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
With this nonlinear epic, filmmaker Jonathan Reiss adapted what is certainly one of the most unfilmable books of all time: THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION by J.G. Ballard
ATRAPADOS
ATRAPADOS (1981) is one of the world’s great unknown cult films, a shocking, nightmarish, mind-expanding apocalyptic parable
A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS
I admittedly don’t know exactly what this film is, but can say for certain that A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is a morbid and fascinating oddity unlike anything else
YOKAI MONSTERS: 100 MONSTERS
A floating umbrella monster, a hairy three eyed critter with no arms, a guy with no face, a woman with a looooooong neck and a walking fish creature are just a few of the 100 monsters on display here
AMER
A tribute to the giallos of Dario Argento and a remarkable piece of hallucinatory filmmaking in its own right, AMER is among the most impressive foreign imports of the past decade
ALICE (1988)
The first feature by the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer was this bizarre take on ALICE IN WONDERLAND, notable for its unflagging invention and oppressive atmosphere
AGONY
This once-banned Russian epic is a crazed exercise in historical revisionism centering on Grigori Rasputin, one of the Twentieth Century’s most fascinating personages